Taras Borodajkewycz

Taras Borodajkewycz (1 October 1902-3 January 1984) was an Austrian professor of economic history and unrepentant Nazi who was infamous for sparking a deadly student demonstration in the 1965 and other scandals.

Biography
Taras Borodajkewycz was born in Baden bei Wien, Austria, Austria-Hungary on 1 October 1902, the son of a Ukrainian railroad worker from Eastern Galicia and his Austrian German wife. He supported the combination of Catholic identity with German nationalism, and he joined the outlawed Austrian Nazi Party in 1934. He taught modern history at the German university in Prague during World War II, and he returned to Austria after the war. Borodajkewicz became a professor at the Vienna College of World Trade, teaching economic history, and his national socialist sympathies were apparent. He attracted conservative, anti-leftist students with his neo-Nazism and anti-Semitism, and this led to him becoming a controversial figure who had many scandals. In 1965, student groups, former resistance members, and unions called for his removal, leading to the youth wing of the fascist Freedom Party of Austria rioting; they killed a 67-year-old concentration camp survivor, the first political death of the second republic of Austria. He was forced to take early retirement with full salary, but he continued to publish articles in right-wing journals until his death in 1984.